#Checklist
Applying checklists in OHS. Standardizing routine equipment safety checks, issuing permits, pre-shift inspections, and workplace assessments to preempt accidents and organize operations.
Risk Assessment Before Purchasing and Launching New Equipment
Implementation of a risk assessment procedure for new equipment at the procurement and installation stages. The process includes preliminary analysis of supplier documentation, adjustment of technical specifications, and on-site equipment assessment by a commission before launch.
Critical Risk Management. Practical Integration of Risk Management into Production Control
Implementing a critical risk management system in medium-sized enterprises with a limited budget. The practice is based on the barrier approach, identification of catastrophic scenarios, and integration of physical barrier control into the daily work of production managers through checklists and dashboards.
Severstal's Safety Management System Transformation
Transformation of the safety management system focusing on the top 10 fatal risks and barrier control digitalization. Implementation of shift-by-shift electronic monitoring of critical barrier operability by workers with instant escalation of deviations to foremen.
Safety Culture: How Practical Training Changes Employee Behavior
Integration of HSE issues and risk assessment into practical technical training programs for maintenance personnel. Creation of training complexes with duplicated equipment to practice safe routine operations, including verbalizing actions and mutual control via checklists.
Digitalization of Occupational Safety Processes
Creation of an HSE digital service ecosystem by an in-house programmer. Modules for behavioral audits, hazard registration, order relevance control, and electronic permits-to-work were implemented with integration into the corporate portal and accounting system.
How to Evaluate the Quality of Behavioral Safety Audits?
The article describes how to evaluate the quality of behavioral safety audits (BSA) for their further improvement using a special checklist. The tool includes the stages of conducting BSAs with scores from 0 to 2, an additional persuasiveness step, and is suitable for use directly at the enterprise or during practical training sessions. Recording in the checklist the positives and what could be done better allows saving the necessary records for subsequent feedback.
How to Train Employees to Conduct High-Quality Behavior-Based Safety Audits?
Integration of Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) training into professional skills competitions and mini-trainings. Practical training of BBS skills using simulated situations, prepared "violators", photo cases, and checklists with a "persuasiveness" criterion.
SIMOPS: Safety Management During Commissioning and Startup
Safety management during simultaneous operations (SIMOPS) at the commissioning stage. Includes the use of readiness checklists, LOTO systems, notification matrices, and visualization to minimize risks when builder and commissioning tasks overlap.
Critical Risk Management Through a Barrier Approach
Transitioning from formal hazard lists to a dynamic critical risk management system via a barrier approach. Practices include integrating risk assessment into the budget campaign, distributing barrier control responsibilities among management levels during walkarounds, and building a motivation system based on risk identification.
Risk Assessment Before Starting Work
The article introduces a practical tool for manufacturing enterprises: pre-job risk assessment (PJRA), which helps account for non-standard and hazardous situations. The author describes the procedure for conducting a PJRA by a supervisor and employees prior to high-risk work or in the absence of standard occupational health and safety instructions. Drawing on the experience of their enterprise, the author explains the advantage of such a detailed format over conventional work permits and sugges...
Risk Assessment for Newly Installed Equipment
The article examines a practical tool for production facilities, warehouses, and offices — a risk assessment checklist for the procurement and installation of simple equipment. The author describes a step-by-step verification process involving a committee, from the preliminary analysis of the operating manual to the drafting of an action plan prior to commissioning. Such a procedure helps ensure equipment safety and prevent the commissioning of facilities that pose high risks to the life and hea...
Safe Workspace
Implementation of the "Safe Workspace" (SWS) tool as part of the enterprise's business system. The practice includes territory zoning, conducting commission walkthroughs using a safety radar (checklist) without issuing prescriptions, joint development of corrective action plans, and digitalizing control via a corporate portal and mobile devices with NFC tags.